So for the whole month of April I lived out of a suitcase and had not much time for blogging. It started with a trip to New York, followed by a quick stop in Dallas to see my parents. While I was there, they asked me to join them at a celebration of the founding fathers of Vietnam and the …
May Is For Family: Dallas
My luck for favorable weather held up by the time I made it to Dallas. It was warm without being uncomfortable and made the perfect ambiance for our belated Mother’s Day and early Father’s Day brunch at the Four Seasons: Sure, we were all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed here before the first round… My dapper dad really enjoyed the succulent crab …
Fashion Opportunity Costs
If I had a choice of superhero powers, it wouldn’t be the ability to control weather (though that could be a very practical skill set for a road warrior like me) or to heal myself from physical injury or even to have X-ray vision. It would simply be the power to teleport myself, or even better, clone myself so that …
George W. Bush Presidential Center
There are three presidential libraries in the great state of Texas. Luckily I’ve been a few times to the grand LBJ library in Austin, and on this last trip to Dallas I got to visit the recently opened George W. Bush Presidential Center near my old alma mater SMU. As we drove down lower Greenville to Mockingbird, my dad asked …
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The Winner Is…
No, there was no spontaneous human combustion to explain the gap from my last entry. Just a very chaotic period of ten days in Dallas leading up to my parents’ golden anniversary party on August 31, 2013…plus a few more after for recovery. But it was definitely so hot in Texas that I could have self-ignited even while just standing …